11-letter words containing o, l, g, i, c
- eccrinology — the branch of physiology and anatomy dealing with secretions and the secretory glands.
- ecovillages — Plural form of ecovillage.
- egomaniacal — Having the psychological condition of egomania.
- egotistical — Excessively conceited or absorbed in oneself; self-centered.
- embryologic — Embryological.
- ethological — Of or pertaining to ethology.
- etiological — Of or pertaining to an etiology.
- euchologion — a collection of prayers
- facing tool — a lathe tool for smoothing a plane surface at right angles to the axis of rotation.
- fluorescing — Present participle of fluoresce.
- foreclosing — Present participle of foreclose.
- freecooling — a system that uses low ambient air temperature to chill water, esp for use in air conditioning
- fuzzy logic — A superset of Boolean logic dealing with the concept of partial truth -- truth values between "completely true" and "completely false". It was introduced by Dr. Lotfi Zadeh of UCB in the 1960's as a means to model the uncertainty of natural language. Any specific theory may be generalised from a discrete (or "crisp") form to a continuous (fuzzy) form, e.g. "fuzzy calculus", "fuzzy differential equations" etc. Fuzzy logic replaces Boolean truth values with degrees of truth which are very similar to probabilities except that they need not sum to one. Instead of an assertion pred(X), meaning that X definitely has the property associated with predicate "pred", we have a truth function truth(pred(X)) which gives the degree of truth that X has that property. We can combine such values using the standard definitions of fuzzy logic: truth(not x) = 1.0 - truth(x) truth(x and y) = minimum (truth(x), truth(y)) truth(x or y) = maximum (truth(x), truth(y)) (There are other possible definitions for "and" and "or", e.g. using sum and product). If truth values are restricted to 0 and 1 then these functions behave just like their Boolean counterparts. This is known as the "extension principle". Just as a Boolean predicate asserts that its argument definitely belongs to some subset of all objects, a fuzzy predicate gives the degree of truth with which its argument belongs to a fuzzy subset. E-mail servers: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>.
- galactoside — A glycoside yielding galactose on hydrolysis.
- gangliocyte — (biology) A ganglion cell.
- gastrocolic — of, relating to, or involving the stomach and colon.
- gemological — Of or pertaining to gemology.
- genius loci — the guardian spirit of a place.
- genotypical — the genetic makeup of an organism or group of organisms with reference to a single trait, set of traits, or an entire complex of traits.
- geochemical — the science dealing with the chemical changes in and the composition of the earth's crust.
- geolocation — the process of determining the location of an electronic device, as a computer, cell phone, satellite, etc.
- geometrical — of or relating to geometry or to the principles of geometry.
- geophysical — the branch of geology that deals with the physics of the earth and its atmosphere, including oceanography, seismology, volcanology, and geomagnetism.
- geopolitics — the study or the application of the influence of political and economic geography on the politics, national power, foreign policy, etc., of a state.
- geosyncline — a portion of the earth's crust subjected to downward warping during a large span of geologic time; a geosynclinal fold.
- geotactical — relating to geotaxis
- glaciations — Plural form of glaciation.
- glauconitic — a greenish micaceous mineral consisting essentially of a hydrous silicate of potassium, aluminum, and iron and occurring in greensand, clays, etc.
- glochidiate — (botany) Having barbs.
- glottogonic — relating to the origin of language
- glucokinase — an enzyme, found in all living systems, that serves to catalyze the phosphorylation of gluconic acid.
- glucosamine — an aminosugar occurring in many polysaccharides of vertebrate tissue and also as the major component of chitin.
- glucosidase — (enzyme) Any enzyme that hydrolyses glucosides.
- glucuronide — a glycoside that yields glucuronic acid upon hydrolysis.
- glycolipids — Plural form of glycolipid.
- glycosidase — (enzyme) Any enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of a glycoside.
- go critical — (of a nuclear power station or reactor) to reach a state in which a nuclear-fission chain reaction becomes self-sustaining
- goalkicking — the act of taking a goal kick
- godchildren — Plural form of godchild.
- goldbricked — Simple past tense and past participle of goldbrick.
- goldbricker — Informal. a brick made to look like gold, sold by a swindler.
- goldfinches — Plural form of goldfinch.
- goldschmidt — Richard Benedikt. 1878–1958, US geneticist, born in Germany. He advanced the theory that heredity is determined by the chemical configuration of the chromosome molecule rather than by the qualities of the individual genes
- granolithic — (of concrete) containing fine granite chippings or crushed granite, used to render floors and surfaces.
- graptolitic — relating to, or containing, graptolites
- gynecologic — the branch of medical science that deals with the health maintenance and diseases of women, especially of the reproductive organs. Abbreviation: GYN, gyn.
- hectoringly — So as to hector or bully.
- hegemonical — having hegemony, or dominance: the ruling party's hegemonic control of all facets of society.
- helicograph — an instrument for drawing helices.
- hematologic — Of or relating to hematology.